Friday, April 17
Festival of Purim Established
Esther 9:18-23, 29-32 NRSV
(T)he Jews of the villages, who live in the open towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, a holiday on which they send gifts of food to one another. Esther 9:19
Perpetual thanksgiving invites us to be perpetually generous, leaving no one behind.